⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score quarter by quarter is not in yet.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Jazz won, and why the Suns did not.
From the game
Made sixteen threes to their five- Shot well above their usual, sixteen of 32 from three
- Won the glass, 45 rebounds to 31
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their ten
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Suns
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run from level to 10 points up
Q1 11:21 · PHX 10-0 UTAH
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run cut a 9-point deficit to 1
Q2 1:01 · PHX 55-56 UTAH
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run cut a 13-point deficit to 5
Q4 7:03 · PHX 94-99 UTAH
Bad plays
- Technical
Josh Jackson technical foul (1st technical foul)
Q3 4:19 · PHX 70-74 UTAH
- Turnover
Mikal Bridges bad pass
Q4 4:49 · PHX 94-101 UTAH
Jazz
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 9
Q2 4:54 · PHX 39-48 UTAH
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 1-point lead to 10
Q3 10:51 · PHX 57-67 UTAH
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 10-point lead to 19
Q4 2:54 · PHX 97-116 UTAH
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| PHX | UTAH | |
|---|---|---|
| 46% | Shooting from the field | 57% |
| 5 | Threes made | 16 |
| 24% | Three-point accuracy | 50% |
| 8 | Free throws made | 14 |
| 41 | Rebounds | 50 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 7 |
| 21 | Assists | 30 |
| 64 | Points in the paint | 54 |
| 8 | Fast break points | 11 |
| 14 | Points off turnovers | 15 |
| 10 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 7 | Steals | 2 |
| 3 | Blocks | 9 |
